ANGUS: The MAGA Threat to Colombia - Lessons for Canada

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ANGUS: The MAGA Threat to Colombia - Lessons for Canada

Charlie Angus / The Resistance - July 06, 2026

EXCERPT: "The MAGA Threat to Colombia - Lessons for Canada

Two years ago, I was invited to Bogotá, Colombia, to take part in the inaugural Pan-American Congress. At the time, the government of Gustavo Petro was deeply concerned about the growing power of the right-wing in the Americas.

He brought together progressive voices from across the hemisphere to discuss strategies to resist the rise of the right. The following year, I participated in the second gathering in Mexico City.

Then Donald Trump returned to power, and everything changed.

The militant right is on the move.

Far-right governments have been elected in Argentina, El Salvador, Chile, Ecuador and now Colombia. It would be dangerously naïve for Canada to think that we are somehow inoculated from the strategies being used by Washington to foster extremist politics in other countries. . . . ."

PHOTO: Charlie Angus speaking at the 2024 Panamerican Congress in Bogotá, Colombia

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